San Antonio plans vast hotel boom for 1927
Baz Antonio as a leading convention city accelerates a record hotel expansion. Current rooms exceed 2000 with projections to 3000 by year end. Gunter hotel adds 200 rooms, Plaza hotel grows to 250 then to a 13 story expansion, and Woods Properties to build the Ambassador with 300 rooms, signaling San Antonio's biggest 1927 hotel program.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baz Antonio
San Antonio
Beverel
Hhotels
Gunter
Plaza
Hwill
Smith Brothers
the Woods Properties Corporation
Navarro and
Martin Streets
Divorces Decrease In S A In The Late 1920s
In Bexar County divorces declined year by year, with about 25 fewer divorces filed in the past year compared to 1925. The piece discusses hotel development plans around San Antonio, including a new 300 to 475 room hotel site at Martin and the main entrance corridor near the city auditorium, and notes San Antonio’s growing role as a convention and tourist center with the upcoming American Legion convention and the $1,000,000 city auditorium completed in 1923.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bexar County
Martin
City Auditorium
Tom Etheridge
San Antonio
American Legion
Texas
Shepherd Launderies Form From Texas Laundry Chain
The Ideal Laundry name is changed to Shepherd Launderies as three Texan plants unite under one banner. T. W. Shepherd’s Beaumont Steam Laundry founded in 1890 starts this chain, with Alamo Palace and Ideal Laundry acquisitions already in the fold. The Houston Pantatorium is noted, and personnel at the focal plant remain unchanged. The move positions the group as a market advantage for South Texas fruit and berry growers by marketing produce ahead of Northern Texas and California seasons.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ideal Laundry
Shepherd Launderies Company
Klassy Kleaners
Will P. Shepherd
South Alamo Street
Beaumont
T. W. Shepherd
Texas
Tvo
Alamo
Palace
Shepherd Organization
Alamo Palace Cleaning
Houston
Shepherd Waundries Company
Focal
Shepherd
California
San Antonio growth eyed for 1927 prosperity
Thorman a leading San Antonio home builder predicts 1927 will be the citys most prosperous year and the greatest tourist season ever. He cites South Texas agricultural development oil gas and minerals as drivers. Planned Park Hill Estates improvements include water gas electricity and paved streets with forty new homes hoped for in 1927.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thorman
San Antonio
South Texas
Thurman
Park Hill Estates
George M. Lazarus Joins R W Creager Auditing Co in San Antonio
George M. Lazarus announces his association with R W Creager Auditing Co at 811 Gibbs Building San Antonio Texas. The firm, established in 1914, offers auditing systems income tax investigations and general accounting with personal service. Telephone Travis 5684.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George M. Lazarus
R W. Creager Auditing Co
Gibbs Building
San Antonio
Texas
Travis
Also Mentioned on This Page
S.A
S. A
Kew
Presbyterian Church of
Carerizo Springs
J. J. Wester
Crystal City
Winter Garden
Catarina Alsa
San Antonio Athletic Club
the Board OF Directors
Protestant General Hospital
P. & S. Hospital
Richmond Avenue
Madison Square Park
Phelps and Dewees
Raymond Phelps
New York
Philadelphia
Baltimore
Physicians and Surgeons Hospital
Nurses’ Home
P. & S. Hospital Corporation
John H. Cunningham
Ellen Louise Brient
Geo. B. Taliaferro
Ralph H. Durker
Guaranty Bond State Bank
R. L. Taylor
GEO
D. Campbell
R. Whbr
W. T. Smith
W. A. Williams
Alex P. Villaret
J. N. Astin
J. M. Gill
J. O. McCaskill
F. G. Silvey
Webb
H, H. Bryant
R. L, Taylor
F. L. Thomson Carl D, Newton
R. Bruce Brough
Geo, D. Campbell
G. D. McGloin
Claud McGauley
San Antonio Building & Loan Association
San Antonio Building and Loan Association
N. St. Mary's Street
Builders’ Exchange Building Telephone
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!